Satish Aditya
Samastipur : Two hired armed criminals in the guise of scrap dealers entered Station Road, Samastipur, house of a big railway scrap buyer of North Bihar Badri Nath Goenka and fired indiscriminately on him, on September 5, 2019, late night. Goenka sustained three bullet injuries. Hearing the sound of firing, Sonal Goenka ,wife of Badri Nath Goenka, and his daughter Aditi Kumari, rushed to his room but the criminals also fired on them and they too sustained bullet injuries.
According to police, the hired criminals had come to kill Badri Nath Goenka so they fled away after firing on him thinking he had died. SDPO Sadar, Samastipur, Pritish Kumar, said that a case has been lodged in this connection and investigation is on to arrest the criminals.
Badri Nath Goenka, his wife Sonal Goenka, and daughter Aditi Kumari have been admitted to a private hospital. The condition of Badri Nath Goenka and his wife Sonal is stated to be critical, according to the doctors attending on them. Aditi is out of danger.
Aditi said two persons came to meet her father on September 5 late night and they started talk and after that they heard sound of firing from the drawing room and she rushed there with her mother. The criminals fired around 5 rounds on them, she said.
According to locals, a powerful group of contractors had tried to eliminate Badri Nath Goenka earlier too to control the railway scrap buying but they had failed in their attempt. According to police sources, two attempts were made to kill Badri Nath Goenka in last two years by criminals but he had escaped unhurt. Raj Kumar Goenka, brother of Badri Nath Goenka, was also killed by the criminals in 2017.